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Revision as of 20:08, 20 December 2024
December 20, 2024 (2024-12-20) (Friday)Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Kryvyi Rih strikes, Kyiv strikes
- At least one person is killed and eight people are injured in Russian missile strikes on civilian infrastructure in Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, and Kyiv, Ukraine. (The Kyiv Independent) (Reuters)
- Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, 2024 Kursk offensive
- A Ukrainian missile strike kills six people and injures 10 others in Rylsk, Kursk Oblast, according to the region's governor Alexander Khinshtein. Russia says it will raise the issue of the missile strike at the United Nations Security Council. (Reuters)
- Kryvyi Rih strikes, Kyiv strikes
- 2024 Magdeburg car attack
- Several people are killed and wounded during a vehicle-ramming attack at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany. The suspected perpetrator is arrested. (Blick)
Disasters and accidents
- Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
- Search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
- Malaysian Minister of Transport Anthony Loke announces a new search effort for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which went missing in March 2014, to be conducted by Ocean Infinity. (DW)
- Search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
- European migrant crisis
- Twenty people are killed after a shipwreck off the coast of Tunisia. (AP)
International relations
- Australia–Solomon Islands relations
- Australia agrees to provide Solomon Islands with a package of financing, training, and infrastructure support worth AU$190 million (US$118 million) over four years to strengthen its police force, as part of a renewed security partnership between the two nations. (France 24)
- Hungary–Poland relations
- Poland's Ministry of Foreign Affairs summons Hungary's ambassador to protest the Hungarian government's decision to grant asylum to former Polish deputy justice minister Marcin Romanowski, who is wanted for alleged corruption. Poland also recalls its ambassador to Hungary Sebastian Kęciek for consultations. (AP)
Law and crime
- 2024 Zagreb school stabbing
- A child is killed and seven people are wounded during a mass stabbing at a primary school in Zagreb, Croatia. The 19-year-old perpetrator is arrested. (BBC News)
Politics and elections
- Politics of Macau
- Sam Hou Fai is sworn in as the new Chief Executive of Macau Special Administrative Region, China, suceeding Ho Iat Seng. (RTHK)
- An amended congressional bill supported by US President-elect Donald Trump to enforce a two-year suspension of the federal debt ceiling to an existing funding bill ensuring full operation of the U.S. federal government service is rejected in the Republican majority U.S. House of Representatives, with multiple House Republicans and nearly all House Democrats opposing. A government shutdown is set to occur if no bill is passed by midnight. (BBC)
- Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson asserts that "e will not have a government shutdown" as he prepares to reintroduce a funding bill without Donald Trump's debt ceiling repeal. (Washington Post)